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Colorectal cancer is a sensitive subject. It’s a disease many people don’t like to talk about — even with their doctors — but that is precisely what needs to happen.
Photography by Sara Edwards Neal
disease strikes 1 in 20 people and is the third most common cancer in the United States. Each year, about 132,000 new cases are diagnosed, according[...]

Women’s Own Worth (W.O.W.) is making a huge impact in the lives of abuse survivors in our state.
Photography by Becca Snider Tally
nonprofit’s mission is to “empower women to know their own worth” by providing services to women and families who have been victims of domestic violence or violent crime. Each day W.O.W. received requests for various[...]

Scott Jared, Where Are You?
Photographs by Janie Jones and courtesy of Pam Jared and Benjamin Jared
This story originally appeared in AY's March 2011 issue
Top photo: A photo taken in the early 90's of Scott Jared and his first wife Regina Perna.
Cossey, a county ranger for the Arkansas Forestry Commission in Perry County, reme[...]

Southern history between the time of the Civil War and the death of African-American physician Fred Thomas Jones in 1938 was fraught with racial problems, many of which, unfortunately, are still with us today.
Photographs courtesy of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
the Civil War settled the legal issue of slavery, it certainly resolved little[...]

The Wolfe Street Center has, since 1982, provided a place for people seeking recovery from alcoholism and support for the loved ones affected by their addictions.
Photography by Cindy Momchilov
Wolfe Street Foundation rolls out the red carpet this month for its annual Academy Awards gala on Feb. 28. An estimated 400 guests will arrive in sty[...]

In most homicide cases, investigators are able to find something to go on, even when there’s little or no physical evidence: the victim acted out of character, angered someone, was in a rocky romance, owned something coveted by another person or perhaps was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
by Rhonda Owen / Originally appeared in AY's June 2013 i[...]

Sometimes we are forced to face our own mortality.
Photographs courtesy of Todd Matthews / Originally appeared in AY's August 2011 issue
could be a sudden illness or a close call in an accident. And while we contemplate death, we may concern ourselves with the disposition of our remains — peaceful repose in a country cemetery or perhaps ashes sp[...]

While the American Civil War raged, another kind of war was waged in Arkansas’ capital city.
Photography by Sonny Rhondes and courtesy of Melissa Gibbs
was a newspaper war, and the publishers attacked each other in a vicious battle of words. One of those publishers was Calvin C. Bliss, whose life is worth a look because of his role at a critical[...]

Now in its sixth year, Evolve has become the Centers for Youth & Families Foundation’s signature fundraising event. Organizers hope to top last year’s milestone and raise more than $175,000.
Photography by Cindy Momchilov
this month, the Wally Hall Ballroom in the Statehouse Convention Center will be transformed into a scene straight out of [...]

Many mornings for the past year and a half have been an adventure. These mornings often fill me with optimism, and since 2016 is a-dawning I thought I might share some of the things that make me want to look on the bright side of life.
pegged the time element to the past 18 months or so, because that’s how long I have been driving my daughter Abb[...]

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